Ecological Economics

by Charles Perrings

• ISBN13: 9781412948609
• ISBN10: 1412948606
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2008-12-22
• Publisher: SAGE Publications Ltd

Summary

The field of ecological economics developed in the late 1980s at the intersection of the social and natural sciences, with roots in political economy, ecology, and biology, and has had a significant impact on research agendas and policy in related fields in subsequent years. This collection of classic and contemporary papers in ecological economics and its precursors includes an introductory essay that explores how the field has developed over time and identifies the main strands in the literature. Volume I reviews the roots and evolution of ecological economics as a field. Volume II examines the methodological and technical challenges posed by the development of a new field at the intersection of a number of mature disciplines. Volume III focuses on the major developments in ecological economics of the last decade. Volume IV looks at the ecological economics of sustainability.

Table of Contents

The Roots of Ecological Economics

Introduction On The Produce of Land Which Sometimes does and Sometimes does not Afford Rent

The Different Ratios in Which Population and Food Increase

Of the Stationary State

Recapitulation and Conclusion

Mill Resilience and Stability of Ecological Systems

Energy and Economic Myths

Total Energy Costs in Ecosystems

The Economics of Exhaustible Resources

The Economic Theory of a Common-Property Resource: The Fishery

The Economics of Overexploitation

Economic Growth and the Quality of the Environment

Intergenerational Equity and the Investing of Rents from Exhaustible Resources

On Economics as a Life Science

The Economics of the Coming Spaceship Earth

Production, Consumption and Externalities

Boulding Preview; Common Property, Externalities and Income Distribution

Coevolutionary Development Potential

Modeling Coupled Ecological-Economic Systems

Modeling Coupled Social-Ecological Systems Limits to Substitution and Irreversibility in Production and Consumption: A neoclassical interpretation of ecological economics

Evolutionary Economics and Environmental Imperatives

Empirical Cyclic Stabilization of an Oyster Reef Ecosystem

A Metapopulation Model with Private Property and a Common Pool

Diversity, Productivity and Temporal Stability in the Economies of Humans and Nature

Roughgarden Necessary and Sufficient Conditions for the Equivalence of Economic and Ecological Criteria in Range Management

Economic Land Use, Ecosystem Services and Microfounded Species Dynamics

Protecting an Endangered Species While Harvesting its Prey in a General Equilibrium Ecosystem Model

Managing Ecologically Interdependent Species

Optimal Ecosystem Management When Species Compete for Limiting Resources

Optimal Spatial Management of Metapopulations: Matching policy scope to ecosystem scale

Uncertainty and Sustainability in the Management of Rangelands

Conservation in the Optimal Use of Rangelands

On Trade, Landuse and Biodiversity

Management of Eutrophication for Lakes Subject to Potentially Irreversible Change

The Economics of Shallow Lakes

Integrated Ecological Economic Modeling of The Patuxent River Watershed, Maryland

Human-Ecosystem Interactions: A Dynamic Integrated Model

Lisa Wainger and Helena Voinov

Ecosystem Services

The Economics of Ecosystem Services

Estimating the Demand for Environmental Services

Valuing Nature: Lessons Learned and Future Research Directions

The Value of Nature and the Nature of Value

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